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An Evening with the Poets
October 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Marc Harshman

Appointed in 2012, he is the seventh poet laureate of West Virginia.
Frank X Walker

The first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate, Frank X Walker is Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Kentucky in Lexington where he founded pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture. He has published eleven collections of poetry, including his latest, Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, which was awarded an NAACP Image Award for Poetry and the Black Caucus American Library Association Honor Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Last Will, Last Testament, winner of the Judy Gaines Young Book Award, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, winner of a Lillian Smith Book Award, and Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride, which he adapted for stage. Voted one of the most creative professors in the south, Walker, a Danville native, coined the term “Affrilachia” and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. A Cave Canem fellow, his honors also include a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry.
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Details
- Date:
- October 14, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Event Category:
- other-events
- Event Tags:
- literature, poet, poetry
Venue
- Taylor Books
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226 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301 United States - View Venue Website
Organizer
- FestivALL
- Phone:
- 3044700489
- Email:
- director@festivallcharleston.com
- View Organizer Website
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